How much revenue did Project CARS 2 make?

Project CARS 2 is free to play, so there is no copy-sales revenue to estimate.

How many copies did Project CARS 2 sell?

Q: How many copies did Project CARS 2 sell?

634k to 1.0M copies, based on its 18k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 634k–1.0M; from 18k reviews (Very Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Project CARS 2 out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Project CARS 2's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 5.3M–16.3M

best case 78.0M (Euro Truck Simulator 2)

Games like Project CARS 2

The middle of these games

≈ 5.3M–16.3M copies

≈ $35.6M–$235.2M after Steam's cut

from ~227k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: Euro Truck Simulator 2 at ≈ 59.4M–96.6M copies, ≈ $326.7M–$878.4M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 42k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 17k to 84k.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Driving (7 of 8) and Automobile Sim (6 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Driving + Transportation, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2025, and 1 of your 8 shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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